Lunar Lunch? There Was An Old Astronaut That Swallowed the Moon by Lucille Colandro

THERE WAS AN OLD ASTRONAUT WHO SWALLOWED THE MOON.

I DON'T KNOW WHY SHE SWALLOWED THE MOON. IT HAPPENED AT NOON.

Take a break, Old Lady. There's a Temp Lady who munches merrily on the moon, and we're off on a selective tour of the solar system.

The Old Astronaut chomps a comet which looks like an omelet. In turn on the menu are a meteoroid that morphs into a meteorite on impact, and then a planet in orbit and a rocket is on the diet docket....

And for dessert...

... SHE SWALLOWED A SATELLITE...

IT WENT DOWN JUST RIGHT, THAT BRIGHT SATELLITE.

In a slight dietary deviation from her usual terrestrial tastings, Lucille Colandro's famous Old Lady snacks in space in her latest spoof of the famous folksong, There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly-- There Was An Old Astronaut Who Swallowed the Moon! (There Was an Old Lady [Colandro]) (Cartwheel/Scholastic Books, 2019).

With her familiar rollicking rhymes and Jared Lee's trademark scratchy-lined comic illustrations, this latest in Colandro's jolly series also includes a handy space glossary, making this gustatory read-and-sing-along song a handy introduction or review of terms for a classroom unit on the solar system. Colandro also offers an appetizer in the form of search-and-find quiz for kids to spot space objects included in Lee's busy illustrations--a fun ragout of entertaining reading and science learning.